Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

One last thing I wanted to mention about the Graphics One class last Wednesday was that the computer technician on duty had to help me with putting up the August license for the Bentley software in all of the terminals. Otherwise the students could only open the software for fifteen minutes at a time in which to be able to save their files, and then open it again.

The thing was, when I last taught the post-requisite subject Graphics Two last September (two terms ago). I could just put the license file in Computer One and the students were able to copy them in their terminals, the same way that they could do with the compressed exercise document files.

But since then, the computers have been revamped, more than once in fact. I should be thankful that they were at the very least able to install the Bentley software in all the computers.

The Information Technology Center has now limited the access to the computers so that the students cannot install any software (read: games) in them. That means that outside of the document folders, all the other folders, including the program files, are read only.

But the license file has to be copied to one of the Bentley software folders, which is IN the program files. So the technician has to log in as administrator in each of the computers to be able to copy the license there, which he had to do at the start of the 8am class.

Next month (which, in fact, is also next term, when it will be Graphics Two offered again), I will ask the local Bentley representatives to e-mail me the license at least one week in advance so that I will be able give it to the technician to place in the computers before the class starts.

Last thing about Wednesday: we had no electricity and magnetism laboratory session then, not only because they were not able to procure the solenoid wire coil and the 150 grams of iron filings for the last experiment, but also because the head of the Registrar’s Office had allowed us to make the First Student Recital, where one of their classmates was performing on the guitar, as an alternative class.

The secretary was also able to call the faculty attendance checker about where my students and I would be instead of making me fill out a change of schedule form and have it approved.

The only thing I forgot to do was inform the lab technician, who, when I met him afterwards, told me that he had waited in the lab for us to show up. I apologized to him for the oversight.

In the Thursday electricity and magnetism lecture class, we answered two and a half examples on resistors in series and parallel and Kirchhoff’s rules, the last two being from the assignment that I gave them last time.

Unfortunately, the details would have to wait until next time again as I have to leave the computer now. I’ll also discuss the Friday Trigonometry class and pre-pre-final grade computation that Dudley asked for, as well as some last minute academic advising that was passed on to me after the people assigned already left. Until then, class dismissed.